Children around the world face difficult situations such as poverty, hunger, illiteracy, health problems, and lack of basic sanitation. Poverty is common in poorer countries and is caused by lack of resources and unequal income distribution. Hunger is caused by poverty where people cannot afford food or water, and leads to malnutrition. Illiteracy, the inability to read or write, affects nine out of ten people in non-Christian parts of the world and is increasing in some countries without basic education. Health problems like heart disease and infections are found worldwide. Lack of basic sanitation, including toilets, is caused by poverty and means people must consume their own waste.

2. WHAT ARE SOME REALLY DIFFICULT SITUATIONS
THAT CHILDREN FACE AROUND THE WORLD?
Hunger
poverty,
illiteracy,
health problems
lack of basic sanitation.

3. POVERTY
Poverty means to have not enough money for basic necessities like
food, water, or even shelter. Poverty is common, especially in poorer
countries. The causes of poverty include poor people’s lack of
resources, an extremely unequal income distribution in the world and
within specific countries, conflict and hunger itself.

4. HUNGER
Hunger is caused by not eating food.
Hunger is caused by poverty, where people do not have money to buy food
and water.
Hunger is very common in poor countries
Hunger may cause death or sickness
Hunger will lead to malnutrition.

5. HUNGER – SOCIAL ENTREPRENEUR
The social entrepreneur saw the world consuming food
which was allergic to them. She wanted to raise
awareness about this worldwide problem. She sees Big
Food as a profit-driven global conspiracy whose
collateral damage is an alarming increase in childhood
food allergies.
She looked deep into the perplexing world of childhood food
allergies and saw a conspiracy that is bad for the children
of America. She believes, it is up to her and parents
everywhere to stop it.

6. ILLITERACY
Illiteracy is one of the greatest problems that face foreign
missions. In the non-Christian portion of the world, nine
out of ten of the people are unable to read. And illit-eracy
is on the increase.
Illiteracy means being unable to read and write.
Some countries do not even have the basic literacy as they
have no basic education.

7. HEALTH PROBLEMS
Health problems means to have illness and diseases.
Examples include heart problems, systematic problems.
Health problems are common in all parts of the world.
Victoria Hale founded The Institute for OneWorld Health to
find cures for infectious diseases prevalent in the
developing world.

8. LACK OF BASIC SANITATION
Poverty is also the cause of lack of basic sanitation. There is
an increasing number of people with lack of
sanitation, especially in poor countries.
Lack of basic sanitation means to have no access to their
basic needs of life. This means that they have no proper
toilets.
This means that they will have to drink their own faeces that
they have left behind.